Aiwu Ruth He, MD, discusses the current role of immune checkpoint inhibitors in upper gastrointestinal and gastric cancers and which patients are most likely to benefit from the anti–PD-1 agents.
Aiwu Ruth He, MD, an associate professor of Medicine at Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the current role of immune checkpoint inhibitors in upper gastrointestinal (GI) and gastric cancers and which patients are most likely to benefit from the antiPD-1 agents.
For patients with upper GI or gastric cancer, the single-agent antiPD-1 therapy nivolumab (Opdivo) is available in the chemotherapy-refractory setting. Patients need to have a combined positive score (CPS) greater than 1 to receive this therapy, He notes, as those patients tend to benefit from anti–PD-1 therapy.
Some clinical trials are also evaluating checkpoint inhibitors in the frontline andsecondlinesetting for patients with upper GI and gastric cancers. Initialdata
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